Abstract
The economic slowdown and limited employment opportunities are opening the path for more self-employment opportunities. This allows unemployed students or students with an entrepreneurial mindset to utilize the knowledge and also skills learned through an MBA program and put them into practice in their entrepreneurial endeavors. As a result, some higher learning institutions have started their entrepreneurship programs or courses to equip the students with the knowledge and also skills for their self-employment upon graduation. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate the influence of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial career choice among MBA students. Employing quantitative research, 238 MBA students of UTM participated in this survey. The results indicated that there is a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial career choice. Additionally, instrumental readiness was found to mediate this relationship.
Highlights
Continuous hits to the global economy have become unavoidable due to uncertain external forces
Incorporation of these assets requires the entrepreneurial education curriculum to adopt different merits (Norouzzadeh & Kowsari, 2009) and various methods such as exploratory learning, statement of problems, cooperative learning, simulations, and role-playing (Yadollahi, 2009; Martin & Romita, 2014) so that the output of the entrepreneurial education curriculum will be more market- and business-oriented than knowledge-oriented (Ahmadpur Dariani & Azizi, 2003). In support of this claim, four fundamental components of the entrepreneurship education curriculum were identified by Imani (2009) which include philosophy and objectives, theoretical fundamentals, elements of entrepreneurial programs, and environmental factors. These requirements were proven to be important by research conducted by Sharif et al (2011), Owladiyan (2010) and Jafari Moghadam (2012) whereby the findings collectively indicated that educational objectives, content, teaching and learning process and strategies, management, monitoring, risk-taking, creativity, and educational assessment practices are prominent areas of an entrepreneurship education curriculum
A response rate of 63.1 percent achieved while most studies at the individual level achieved a response rate of 52.7 percent with recent publications suggesting an average of 50 percent (Baruch & Holtom, 2008) which is sufficient for statistical analysis
Summary
Continuous hits to the global economy have become unavoidable due to uncertain external forces This has made many countries to suffer economic health. In spite of these challenges, Nafukho and Helen Muyia (2010) proved that entrepreneurship is vital in creating and fulfilling a healthy economy. Selfemployment is seen as a gateway to the labor markets. This is true especially to university graduates who suffer a lack of experience demanded by the organizations. A successful entrepreneurial education curriculum leads many university graduates to venture into new business creations as a path to entering the labor market. Self-employment requires the necessary skills to be successful given a dynamic business environment
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